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Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG defends the use of "you know."

2: Investigative journalist TOM POWERS. He's written a new book about the German attempt to get an atomic bomb, the threat that terrified American scientists and military during World War II. The book is, "Heisenberg's War," (Knopf). At the center of the story is German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg. While other preeminent scientists left Germany with the rise of the Reich, Heinsenberg chose to stay to defend what was left of "good science." American officials plotted to kill or kidnap him to "deny the enemy his brain." There's long been a debate about whether Heisenberg purposely held back research on the bomb to thwart Hitler, or he just inadvertently bungled the attempt. POWERS makes the case that Heisenberg withheld the kind of encouragement that would have led to development of the bomb. POWERS contrasts this with America's fear of German technology, and zealousness to get to the bomb first.

Writer and single-mom ANNE LAMOTT explains to her son, why he has no father.

Make-up and Visual Effects Artist STAN WINSTON. He created the live-action dinosaurs in this summer's hit movie, "Jurassic Park." In the film, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," he aged actress Cicely Tyson from age 19 to 110. In "The Terminator," WINSTON made-up Arnold Schwarzenegger, and created the robotic puppetry in the film. WINSTON won an Academy Award for his work on "Aliens." And he developed and created the character of Edward Scissorhands for the movie of the same name.

2: Interview with Brian Urquhart continues.

2: Writer LARRY COLTON. He has a new memoir, "Goat Brothers," (Doubleday) it's about he and his faternity brothers at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s and what happened to them. It's about a group of superjocks who are unprepared for life ahead. One reviewer writes, "a gripping, often painful look at lives that went right and awry in about equal measure."

2: Interview with RAFAEL SCHARF continued.

1963. Rock historian ED WARD continues his look back. This time, the year

Professor ROBERT JAY LIFTON. Lifton is distinguished professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College, City University of New York. He's been studying cults and fundamentalist groups for many years. Lifton will talk about the armed cult in Waco, Texas run by David Koresh of the Branch Davidians--how typical they are, and what can be done to deal with them

2: TAMRA DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF THE NEW RAP SATIRE FILM "CB4", WHICH STARS CHRIS ROCK OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. DAVIS IS WELL-KNOWN FOR HER WORK DIRECTING MUSIC VIDEOS WITH EVERYONE FROM SONIC YOUTH TO BETTE MIDLER. HER FIRST FILM WAS "GUN CRAZY".